Known limitations: - no support for insertion of
citations in tables or other elements outside of the main text
(limited support for inline tables in MS Word)

Plain-text formatting. These applications can
be used to insert citations and format the manuscript, like the
previous group of applications, but the output will only be plain
text, without proper rendering of bold, italics, small caps, or
paragraph formatting:

TextEdit – txt documents

Byword

iA Writer

TextMate

TexShop

TextWrangler

BBEdit

WriteRoom

SubEthaEdit

CotEditor

Insertion of citekey. These applications can be
used to insert citations, but cannot be used to format the
manuscript. The inserted citations will include the plain-text
citekey, in the format defined in the Manuscripts preferences in
Papers. The default format is the 'Papers Magic Citation',
typically output as '{Smith:1991tu}'. This can be useful is the
manuscript is later exported to a document that can be formatted in
one of the supported application above. For instance, in Scrivener,
the inserted citekeys will later be part of a "compiled" RTF
document, that can then be formatted in TextEdit. Other citekey
formats include BibTeX, MMD, Pandoc and ConTeXt. Typically, these
will be used if the final formatting is not done in Papers, but in
another application like BibTeX.

Scrivener

Smultron

Fraise

Kod

Sublime Text

Chocolat

Lyx

TexMaker

Latexian

Texpad

Terminal

MacVim

Aquamacs

Emacs

OmniOutliner

DEVONthink

Insertion of formatted references. These
applications can be used to insert formatted references directly at
the current insertion point. A formatted reference is simply the
output that would appear already formatted in the bibliography of a
manuscript. The format used for the output is based on the style
set in the Citations preferences in Papers. When the checkbox
'Allow Citekey' is checked in the preferences, Citations will also
offer the option to 'Insert Citekey', which provides the same
functionality as the 'Insert Citation' action in the applications
listed above. For the applications listed here, however, it
typically does not make sense to just insert a citkey. The option
should be used only if you know what you are doing, and know that
the citekey will eventually be used in a final document that can be
formatted by Papers (or another application like BibTeX).

Mellel

Bean

OpenOffice Aqua

LibreOffice

NeoOffice

AbiWord

Nisus Writer

Pagehand

Ulysses

QI Writer.app

InDesign

Evernote

Eclipse

MarsEdit

TaskPaper

Mori

Together

Mathematica

Mindjet MindManager

Circus Pony NoteBook

Stickies

Mail

OmniGraffle

Numbers

Keynote

Powerpoint

Safari

Firefox

Camino

Opera

Chrome

OmniWeb

Special Applications.

Papers.

If Papers is the front application, the default action offered
by Citations will be to open the selected publication in a new tab
in Papers. This is also an action available for all other
applications, but normally not the default.

Finder.

If Finder is the front application, the default action offered
by Citations will be to show the PDF for the selected publication
in the Finder.

Unsupported Applications. When Citations does
not know what the front application is, you are still given the
option to 'Copy Formatted Reference to Clipboard'. If you think the
application could be supported, start a new discussion on Papers help center and explain
how and why you would use Citations with this application. In most
cases, adding the very basic level of support is straightforward
(insertion of formatted references), so there is a good chance we
will add it.

As a user, you can also send feedback to the developers of your
favorite text editor or application that you'd want to see
integrated with Papers. Typically, basic Applescript support for
document-based application is a very good start. Tell the
developers of the other app as well! If you are the
developer of a document-based application, you can
easily add Applescript basic support to allow Papers to interact
with your app via Citations. Get in touch, we'll send you more
details and some simple steps you can take for Applescript
support.